Kendall County Commissioner Chad Carpenter Monday said he will oppose any tax abatement or tax increment reinvestment zone application by a firm wanting to build a battery storage site in Comfort.
Carpenter joined more than 250 people who crammed into the Comfort Middle School auditorium to voice their opposition to Key Capture Energy’s Ringtail Ridge storage facility on 3 acres of an 8-acre plat the company leases along Flat Rock Creek Road off FM 473.
“I’m not going to give you an abatement, if it comes back to (Kendall County Commissioners) court. That will be something I’ll stand firm on,” the Precinct 4 commissioner said, to raucous applause from the standing-room-only crowd.
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